Bottom tier food. Bottom tier company. I don’t know why anyone eats this level of trash anymore. Inflation has hit fast food harder than other types of restaurants, or groceries. It doesn’t make sense justifying paying these prices for this when you can get better food for comparable prices now. There used to be an expectation that this food would at least be cheap.
Addiction
I went to Arby’s yesterday because it was cheaper than McDonald’s and Taco Bell. Was not disappointed. Arby’s still slaps IMO.
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This food was never cheap tbh
The point was convenience - a hot and ready to eat meal that you can grab at any time and don’t have to prepare yourself.
They had a thing called the dollar menu for decades.
During the 90s-2000s, they’d have hamburger Tuesdays where you can buy a hamburger for like $0.29 cents.
They had ads where families would come with “a few bucks” and feed everyone.
I survived on one meal a day at McDonald’s when I was stuck doing day labor in Seattle around the 2002 crash.
Back then it was actually cheap to get enough food to survive on for under 5 bucks. I remember the 20 cheeseburger and hamburger deals they had twice a week.
The price increases to cheeseburgers really hurts, when that was usually my main dollar menu deal.
Well to be fair it’s not McDonald’s fault that the dollar is practically worthless now
It used to be cheap. It wasn’t that long ago there was a dollar menu. Now a cheeseburger is $2.79.
You could always make a cheaper burger yourself. Yeah a pack of buns and and pound of burger would cost more, but per burger it was always cheaper.
I really don’t think you could’ve back in the dollar menu days. A double cheese burger for less than $1? Unless you’re buying you’re ingredients in a pretty bulk size (which if you’re regularly eating off the dollar menu, you probably can’t afford to do), I doubt you could have gotten much better than that
You totally could, those patties were tiny af and a pound of beef went far enough for it to even out
I used to get 3 double cheeseburgers and a large tea for $4.20 including tax. McDonald’s and Little Caesars were by far the cheapest meals I could buy unless you want to count ramen noodle packs. Groceries were way more expensive. Now both are expensive LOL.
You could get a pound of ground beef and a pack of burger buns and I think the one time I did the math it came out to 80 cents a burger.
So $0.80 for a burger or $0.99 for a double cheeseburger. I’ll take the double.
Besides that, if you only had $5 to spend you could not have bought the supplies to make a single burger for $5. Have to buy at least a pound of beef, a whole pack of buns, etc. Even in your example I’d argue fast food was cheaper.
Well yeah, the last time I did the math was probably 2006 or something lol
Though the prices I’m seeing currently are $7.94 for 2lbs, $2.88 for 8 buns, $2.48 for 24 cheese slices.
$1.51 per 1/4lb cheese burger.
tbh I have no idea how much this stuff costs without looking it up anymore, I just eat vegetables and beans now lol
Value menu is as expensive as a meal. No more free refills.
How un-American.
what an austere dumb cheap fucking company. i went in last week and there wasn’t anywhere to get my own soda or ketchups or anything, just a plain dining room. i loved waiting 10 minutes for the 1 guy slaving away back there to get my drink with the food as well instead of having cups by the order kiosk, which WORKED FOR YEARS AND YOU STILL PROFITED HANDSOMELY YOU FUCKING CHEAP FUCKS GOD IT MAKES ME SO SICK IT NEVER ENDS
next they’re going to phase out menus, it’s just 1 button you hit it and it takes $20 from your checking and they give you berder and 10 grammes of french fries
what a fucking dogshit world. companies used to actually give a shit about UX, but now they’re making it as shitty as possible out of attrition
How dare you hurt those shareholders like that
Any McDonald’s around me hasn’t had self service fountains for years. I assumed up to now it’s been a franchisee decision
Who cares. Their food and restaurant sucks and always has.
And now it’s not even cheap. It used to be that it sucked, but you could walk out stuffed for like $4, but the last time my wife and I went on a road trip it was literally like $30 for the two of us.
At those prices you’re better off going to an actual restaurant unless you have absolutely no time for it
Drive-thru so long it doesn’t save much time either
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I don’t go to any fast food chain often enough to download an app for it lol
Then y’all are fat AF. A decent meal is like 6-9 dollars
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When they say “soda fountains”, is that just USA talk for drinks machines?
I must have heard the phrase a hundred times but it only just clicked in my head that that must be what a soda fountain is 😅
It makes sense to just have one machine that employees have to maintain and refill. Sounds like you can still ask for a refill.
Go to 7/11 if you want to make your gross soda combos lol
Wow, the instructions are clear now!
I ask for a refill, I get 80% ice, 10% drink, and 10% air.
Thank you kindly creepy clown restaurant!
I think you mean “employee” because they can’t find anyone else willing to work there lol
